In what I would consider to be an ideal situation for raising cows and other farm animals, the flowers of clover and vegetables would bloom in an orchard of trees laden with fruit and nuts. Bees would fly among the barley and wild mustard that had been sown here and there and later reseeded by themselves. Chickens and rabbits would forage on whatever they could find. Ducks and geese would paddle about in the ponds with fish swimming below. At the foot of the hills and in the valleys, pigs and wild boars would fatten themselves on worms and crayfish, while goats would occasionally peek out from among the trees in the woods. Scenes like this can still be found in the poor villages of some countries not yet swallowed up by modern civilization. The real question is whether we see this way of life as uneconomical and primitive, or as a superb organic community in which people, animals, and nature are one. A pleasant living environment for animals is also a utopia for human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka, Sowing seeds in the desert
